Uighurs have lived their for ever, in fact Uighurs are a mixture of native Indo-European and Turkic people.
Uighurs in Xinjiang's traditional territory is the southern Xinjiang, Kashgar, Hotan, Aksu(Today, 90% of the terrorists also from these three places), these three places. Until today, the South is still the Uighur absolute subject.
Early Qing Dynasty, Xinjiang, most of the territory belonging to Junger, Qing eliminated Junger Mongolia,
After the ruling Chinese Communist Party, renamed Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, which is the adjustments made copying the Soviet Communist Party National Policy. In fact, unreasonable. Southern Xinjiang is Uighur real territory.
The capital of Xinjiang, the original is迪化(Dihua), the Communist Party changed it to a Mongolia name---Urumqi乌鲁木齐.
Today, Han Chinese or other democratic , did not like the Turks, make the Constantinople became Istanbul, Kashgar,is still Kashi.
In addition, the looks on Uighur is Mongoloid and Indo-European mixed race. East of Turpan Uighur looks tend Mongoloid, southern Kashgar, Hotan, some Uighur ethnic like Afghanistani and other Central Asian Indo-European people. Northern Xinjiang, isTwo kinds of looks mixed.